RFR: 8187817 [MVT] Crash with "assert(has_value_fields()) failed: Sanity checking" when inheriting value type fields

[Frederic Parain]

Thank you for the review.

Fred

> On Oct 6, 2017, at 06:38, David Simms <david.simms at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Looks good !
> 
> 
> On 5/10/2017 4:45 p.m., Frederic Parain wrote:
>> Please, review this changeset fixing bug JDK-8187817.
>> 
>> Most operation on value fields require to have a pointer to the
>> ValueKlass of the field, and retrieving the ValueKlass is a
>> costly operation. The InstanceKlass class has been extended
>> to include an array of ValueKlass pointers for its fields,
>> making the retrieval much faster.
>> The bug was that the code not cirrectly handling the case
>> where value fields were inherited from a parent class.
>> Operations on the ValueKlass array were being performed on the
>> current class and instead of the class where the fields were declared.
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~fparain/8187817/webrev.00/index.html
>> 
>> An unit test is included.
>> All hotspot_valhalla tests pass.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Fred
>